Thread support library (C++0x)

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The standard thread support library provides portable way to construct threads and to manage them.

Contents 1 Thread management 2 Mutual exclusion 3 Condition variables 4 Futures

[edit] Thread management

Class thread manages a separate thread.

There are several thread related functions defined in std::this_thread namespace:

Defined in header <thread>
yield	hints the implementation to reschedule execution of threads (function)
get_id	returns the thread id of the current thread (function)
sleep_for	stops the execution of the current thread for a specified time duration (function)
sleep_until	stops the execution of the current thread until a specified time point (function)

[edit] Mutual exclusion

Several classes are provided that manage mutexes: mutex, recursive_mutex, timed_mutex, recursive_timed_mutex.

Several class templates are provided for generic mutex management: lock_guard, unique_lock.

once_flag

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Several helper functions are provided for mutex locking:

Defined in header <mutex>
try_lock	tries to lock specified mutexes or locks, returns if at least one is unavailable (function)
lock	locks specified mutexes/locks, blocks if at least one is unavailable (function)
call_once	This section is incomplete (function)

[edit] Condition variables

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[edit] Futures

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